Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Threat to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy...
...planning their strategy, the Tory chieftains had decided to abandon all constructive suggestion and concentrate on criticism. In Hammersmith, all the fine new Tory "charters" painstakingly formulated over the last year and a half were tacitly shelved while Tory spokesmen heaped invective on Labor's extravagance, the food shortage, the housing shortage and the high cost of living. At Labor rallies, Tory hecklers shouted "onions, snoek and eggs"-all painful items in rationed Britain. But many a Hammersmith voter could recall days when there was food aplenty and no money...
...purity -and stayed that way even up around F and G above high C; he had such sheer power that he could blow as many as 300 ceiling notes in succession. The songs that came from his shiny horn ranged from the most mournful of blues to the explosive abandon of numbers like Muskrat Ramble...
...Soviet. The Reds marched 6,000 miles. They passed through twelve provinces, crossed 18 mountain ranges, and 24 rivers. Intermittently they fought with Nationalists, but they got away each time, with heavy losses. The marchers had started out with a huge train of supplies, but they had to abandon most of it on the way. It is said that Mao Tse-tung, then married to his third wife (Ho Tse-chun, a schoolteacher), abandoned their five children on the way, leaving them in the care of peasants...
...second phenomenon of the game was the gay abandon with which North eastern coach Herb Gallagher inserted his three lines. At no time during the game was there any guarantee that the Huskie first line would be replaced by the second. Nor did the makeup of the forward walls remain constant. Northeastern ace Jim Bell appeared as a cenlor, wing, and defenseman. Unfortunately the variety of Bell's roles had no damaging effects on his scoring skill and he collected three of Northeastern's five goals...